AN’s Best of Design Awards annually elevates the best built and unbuilt work across the world—from buildings and interiors to landscapes and master plans. It’s from this program that AN crowns a Project of the Year, a standout winner amongst all the winners of the program.
This year, the jury will be bigger than ever—the better to review the expansive and international projects submitted. Jurors will asses submissions based on several criteria: strength of the presentation, evidence of innovation, creative use of new technology, sustainability, and, most importantly, good design. The panel will determine the winners, honorable mentions, and editors’ picks, all of which will be shared online and in AN’s end-of-year print issue.
Ahead of the deadline on September 12, 2025, check out some of the stellar jurors on this year’s panel—and stay tuned for more jury announcements to come.
Alex Bozikovic | Architecture Critic | The Globe and Mail
Alex Bozikovic is the architecture critic for The Globe and Mail and an author of three books, including Toronto Architecture: A City Guide. He teaches in the Master of Urban Design program at the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
Rossana Hu | Founding Partner | Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Rossana Hu cofounded Neri&Hu Design and Research Office with Lyndon Neri in 2006, an interdisciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai. Hu received her Master of Architecture and Urban Planning at Princeton University and her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at UC Berkeley with a minor in music.
Alongside her design practice, Hu has been deeply committed to architectural education. She was appointed the Howard Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice at UC Berkeley in 2023; the Design Critic (2023) and John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture (2019 and 2021) at the Harvard GSD; and Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor (2022) and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor Chair (2018) at the Yale School of Architecture. Hu was appointed as Chair of the Department of Architecture at Tongji University in 2021 and assumed the Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in spring 2024.
Bryan Lee Jr. | Founder and Design Principal | Colloqate Design
Bryan Lee Jr. is an architect and leading design justice advocate. As the founder and director of Colloqate Design, a nonprofit design practice, he is committed to using design as a tool for social change. He is also a founding organizer of the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter University, which work to uplift the voices and perspectives of marginalized communities in the built environment.
Bryan Lee Jr. has led two award-winning architecture and design programs for high school students, one through the Arts Council of New Orleans and the other through the National Organization of Minority Architects. Bryan is the 2025–26 National NOMA President. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2018 Fast Company Most Creative People in Business, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices award in 2019, the 2021 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, the 2023 United States Artist Fellow, and the recipient of the 2025 AIA Whitney M Young Jr Award, elevating him to the AIA College of Fellows.
Beka Sturges | Principal | Reed Hilderbrand
Beka Sturges is a Principal of Reed Hilderbrand and manages the New Haven office where she leads private and public projects. Her work is noted for its powerful spatial demonstration of the cultural and environmental value of landscapes. Sturges’ current projects include Great Island in Long Island Sound, Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Valley, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.. In a series of commissions from public gardens—San Antonio Botanical Garden and Dumbarton Oaks—Sturges is reframing living collections for the flourishing of all communities. A committed educator, she teaches as a Senior Critic at Yale School of Architecture.
Clive Wilkinson | President | Clive Wilkinson Architects
Clive Wilkinson is an architect and strategist working in the fields of urban design, architecture, and interior design. His large-scale projects for Google, Disney, Macquarie Bank, Stanford University, Microsoft, and Nokia have established new paradigms for building creative commercial and educational communities. While innovative in its architecture, his design process is primarily focused on the social agenda of buildings. Wilkinson won the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design in 2012. In 2014, Fast Company nominated his firm one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Architecture.
Jack Murphy | Executive Editor | The Architect’s Newspaper
Jack Murphy is Executive Editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. Previously he was Editor of Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston and an adjunct professor at the University of Houston. His writing has appeared in Architectural Record, Dwell, The Architect’s Newspaper, Texas Architect, Places, Cite, PLAT, Paprika!, the SF Gate, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Review of Architecture, among other publications. He received an Honorable Mention for the Pierre Vago Journalism Award 2020 from the International Committee of Architecture Critics. He earned degrees in architecture from MIT and Rice University and contributed to award-winning architectural practices in Texas, New York, and Massachusetts.
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